Posted on 06/04/2018 6:33:46 AM PDT by shove_it
In Barack Obamas adopted hometown, of all places, his $375 million Obama Presidential Center is running into growing headwinds from a few gutsy souls.
Ironically, the winds arent gusting from the usual directionRepublicans and others the left often labels racist Obama-haters. Rather, its blowing from the very people who have long lionized Obama: white Chicago lakefront progressives, University of Chicago professors, environmentalists, African-American activists, and a community organization of the kind that once employed Obama as an organizer.
On May 14, a preservationist group called Protect Our Parks filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, seeking a court order that would bar local government agencies from building Obamas center in the revered and beautiful Jackson Park, which served as the site of the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893. The group also wants to bar the city from giving control of the centers site to the Obama Foundation. They are opposed by a phalanx of avid Obama supporters headed by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and including local labor unions, businesses, newspaper editorial boards, and a range of do-gooders who have uncritically embraced Obamas library plans.
Imagine if Republicans had concocted a scheme to sell public land for a song to build a Donald Trump presidential library. Protect Our Parks argues that this is what the city of Chicago has done with Obamas library, asserting that the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago dont have the authority to transfer public parkland to a nongovernmental entity such as the Obama Foundation, especially for a nominal amount of money and in violation of state law that bars the illegal taking of public park land. The suit claims the sale is a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab.
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BPDM
Black Presidents don’t matter
LOL....good one.
that would be dangerous for him...
and with Trump elected, their slush funds are not as filled as they would have been- so they might want to spend this money elsewhere
Plus... he screwed up so bad he helped usher in Trump, they may not be happy about that. What can Obama do for them any more? what good is he?
His purpose is all used up- and they may not be feeling over $300 million generous anymore
Don’t forget Hitler and the Bavarian Communists he and the boys took out!
“Perhaps he is no longer useful to them...”
As PDJT “disappears” Obama’s legacy, Obama’s support disappears.
Exactly what I was thinking.
No honor among thieves.
It’s getting crowded under that bus! (I wonder who is driving it?)
Obama Foundation = Clinton Foundation; same ole; same ole corruption, ya think?
The One’s plans being foiled by.....COMMUNITY ORGANIZING??
Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature.
“Illinois took 170 million from the road fund and re-directed it to Obamas Library.
It also looks like there is 360 million for road improvements near the Obama presidential library.”
My first thought was JS authored this story.
The locals are actually derisively calling it a temple.
Where do they sacrifice fay Wray?
obama is becoming a ‘has-been’, is becoming a useless tool.
Its just the way things work for leftists.
When he goes to prison, all the other leftists will make believe he never existed.
Never underestimate how Chicagoans feel about their lakefront. It is the jewel of the city.
That the Obamas dont get this says much about them.
here’s a small slice of hope for justice... bwahahaha...
Shsssh! Dont say that out loud. Pharaoh Choomgang might get the idea to build a pyramid.
I hope he never gets to build it ........... well, maybe down in Cuba.
Karma from all the people murdered in Chicago thanks to Liberals!
There’s a ton of Karma coming to the Liberal Marxists who tried to destroy Donald J. Trump! And, that includes traitor GOPe.
Mayor Daley (The elder) would have handled this with a wave of his hand.
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